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ANTH320
Slavery in the Americas
ANTH320 FA
Crosslistings: AFAM320, LAST320
Next Offered in 9798 FA
This seminar will examine the development of slavery and
racial ideologies in the Americas with explicit comparisons
between the slaveholding societies of Latin America, North
America and parts of the Caribbean, and in-depth discussion
of the ways in which these regions have traditionally been
contrasted by historians and anthropologists. We will
utilize primary texts, historical accounts and theoretical
analyses of race and slavery with the goal of understanding
both the "culture" of slavery from different perspectives,
and the ways in which legal, religious and state
institutions shaped and maintained slave systems in the
regions under question.
MAJOR READINGS
INCLUDE ALL OR PARTS OF THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
St. Clair Drake, BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE
Frank Tannenbaum, SLAVE AND CITIZEN
Winthrop D. Jordan, WHITE OVER BLACK: AMERICAN ATTITUDES
TOWARDS THE NEGRO, 1550-1812
J. William Harris (ed.), SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE
SOUTH
Deborah White, AR'N'T I A WOMAN? FEMALE SLAVES IN THE
PLANTATION SOUTH
Frederick Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK
DOUGLASS
Laura Foner and Eugene Genovese (eds.), SLAVERY IN THE NEW
WORLD
Eugene Genovese, ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL: THE WORLD THE SLAVES
MADE
Herbert S. Klein, AFRICAN SLAVERY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN
Robert S. Conrad, CHILDREN OF GOD'S FIRE: A DOCUMENTARY
HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN BRAZIL
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Mid-term take home exam:
research paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
One class
presentation, consistent attendance and participation in
discussions.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting
or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the
first class, they will be dropped from the class list.
NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form
to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS ANTH
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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